The Psychology of Money - Morgan Housel

The Fourth Turning

Finland: The Country of White Lilies - Grigory Spiridonovich Petrov

The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov is the best book. Big words, I know.

The Minimalist Entrepreneur - Sahil Lavingia

Short & great

Fiat Food by Matt Lysiak. Reads like a crime story. Insightful and describes why we shouldn’t trust governments on anything. Also accurately depicts who decides on what you can purchase in the grocery stores.

Not just this weekend, because the book is massive, but at the moment I'm reading "Capital in the Twenty-First century" by Thomas Piketty.

I'm re-reading one which is an old favorite of mine - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China. It's the true story of three generations of a Chinese family, the grandmother was a concubine of a warlord, the mother was a communist official, and the daughter experienced the Cultural Revolution as a teenager and young adult. You learn about the fascinating and disturbing history of the 20th century in China, and how the communist revolution was experienced through the eyes of these three women. The stories are amazing. Particularly interesting was the story of the author's father, who tried hard to be a just man during and after the communist revolution, but was completely crushed by the cultural revolution.

We are creating a little microcosm of history for future generations to study right here. “Footnote: sn304392”.

What I mean is what are the books of the avant garde of this community? How do they compare worth next year?

@BlueSlime recently found The Invisible Hand in Virtual Worlds ... I haven't received it yet, but I'm looking forward to it.

How To Think Clearly — Paul Rosenberg

We have a ton of Bitcoin Books listed if anyone is looking for a good read, many of which some have recommended below :)

This book is written by Greg Cootsona, a pastor who’s a passionate musician. Incidentally, two identities that I hardly feel any affinity with. But perhaps because this book is written from a lens so refreshingly different from mine, I enjoyed reading it tremendously.

I love how this book dwells on getting close to your soul. “It takes time to feel time” consists of simple words but packs a truth so profound that I suspect it will take me years to unpack its entire meaning. Recently, I said nope to presenting at a conference during teachers’ protected time in June 2024. It wasn’t difficult for me to decline the opportunity. However, given my tendency to embrace novel challenges, I knew very well that this was something that I would value highly in years to come. Nonetheless, when I read that “you can say yes to the luxury of time”, I knew that I had made the right decision. More downtime is good for me to examine the rhythms of my work life and analyse how I roll with the ebb and flow of time. I wrote in my rejection email that I wanted to have a schedule that is “as uncluttered as possible”; I guess listening to my instincts is the best thing to do.

I particularly enjoyed the section about how musicians must practise the fundamentals of their musicality diligently for years so that they hone their skills to a level in which infusing spontaneity is something they inject easily and delightfully. Again, I have a relatable anecdote. So, I stayed back today to crack my brains at the Escape Room activity that we were to organise for students next week. And I tried out Pictory.AI for the first time ever. Basically, I tried not to see it as a chore but instead, as a chance to experiment with all those fancy AI tools out there.

Teaching is a chaotic profession in which you are expected to achieve great things with fractional attention, so I don’t know whether I would always have the mental capacity and emotional bandwidth to invest in upgrading my skills. Sometimes, after finishing all the myriad non-teaching tasks, I just wanna scamper home and take a nap. But I’m reminded that I can only improvise when I have put in the time to master my craft.

A new book shop opened down the street from me, picked up Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish this week

The Order War by L. E. Modesitt Jr.